Creating own firmware with Nordic's beacon

[Paresh]

Hi. Can we develop and use our own firmware for any of the Nordic's beacon? Or do we need to mandatorily use firmware given by Nordic with beacon and modify them as much as possible?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Nordic Semiconductor only sell one "beacon", the nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit. This is a reference design intended to show the possibilities for Bluetooth based beacon developement. You can use any code you want on this device. You can also develop beacon applications using our other developement tools, like nRF52-DK, nRF51-DK and nRF51 Dongle. You can also create custom boards or buy development kits from other vendors to create customized beacons.

If you can change the firmware of beacons, which contains Nordic ICs, created by other companies, depends on whether the developer provide a programming interface. The typical available programming alternatives are the SWD interface and over-the-air (OTA) device firmware update (DFU).

Best regards,

Jørgen